Application of an ELISA test using Schistosoma bovis adult worm antigens in travellers and immigrants from a schistosomiasis endemic area and its correlation with clinical findings

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 435-440

  Pardo, Javier ^a,b   Arellano, Jose Luis Pérez ^c   López Vélez, Rogelio ^d   Carranza, Cristina ^c   Cordero, Miguel ^b   Muro, Antoio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EGG PRODUCTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GOLD STANDARD; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SCHISTOSOMA BOVIS; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA INTERCALATUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAVEL; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADULT; AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SPAIN;

EID: 34248232602     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540601105806     Document Type: Article

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